Yep. Team with smug fans vs. team with smug fans. Where's that big ****ing meteor?

I think any meteor carrying such limited damage that it wouldn't trigger events ending civilization as we know it could be put to better use. And neither fanbase in the World Series is the worst in baseball. Really, any fanbase exposed will give you reason to hate their team. There are people who hate the White Sox because of their fans.

I have no reason to hate the Cardinals because doing so would give me some common ground with Cubs fans. I don't care how smug Cardinals fans are. They don't play in the same league or division as the White Sox. If there are smug Cardinals fans who want to keep smug Cubs fans in their place, that alone seems an outstanding reason to root for the Cardinals.

I think any meteor carrying such limited damage that it wouldn't trigger events ending civilization as we know it could be put to better use. And neither fanbase in the World Series is the worst in baseball. Really, any fanbase exposed will give you reason to hate their team. There are people who hate the White Sox because of their fans.

I have no reason to hate the Cardinals because doing so would give me some common ground with Cubs fans. I don't care how smug Cardinals fans are. They don't play in the same league or division as the White Sox. If there are smug Cardinals fans who want to keep smug Cubs fans in their place, that alone seems an outstanding reason to root for the Cardinals.

In an world where I could isolate my existence in life as a Sox fan, it would work. In reality, I can't do it. All my wife's family and former associates are from Missouri (and not the part that roots for the Royals) so I have already had my fill of Yadi-crushes, rally squirrels, and Wachtober.

I'm not interested in seeing either team win. I'll probably sit this one out.

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Originally Posted by ChicagoG19

This is probably the World Series match up I least wanted to see. I don't even care at this point.

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Originally Posted by vinny

Yep. Team with smug fans vs. team with smug fans. Where's that big ****ing meteor?

You guys sum up my thoughts: the two teams I least wanted to see, a begrudging admiration for the Cardinals (Pujols departs and they miss him like a toothache), smug fans vs. smug fans. If it didn't stick in the Cubs' craw for the success of their "rival" I could not care less. But I will probably still watch. SMO

As a longtime ( 1957) White Sox fan who has lived mostly in New England the last 50 years, I find the Red Sox fans when I go to Fenway to be overall polite, knowledgeable and very much into the game. Many sit in company seats since the Red Sox sell thousands of them. As I posted elsewhere, typical Fenway crowd is a husband/wife and 2 kids in the grandstand and college kids in the bleachers. Very safe neighborhood surrounding the ballpark. If you don't have free tickets, can be an expensive day.

Average WS ticket on Stub Hub was $1,400 and range was $500-$5000. Weather will be cold and damp tomorrow night.

So if the rosters were the same but the teams had different fan bases people would be more excited?

Yes.

__________________"I have the ultimate respect for White Sox fans. They were as miserable as the Cubs and Red Sox fans ever were but always had the good decency to keep it to themselves. And when they finally won the World Series, they celebrated without annoying every other fan in the country." Jim Caple, ESPN (January 12, 2011)

"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the (bleeding) obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." — George Orwell

Let's see... we have a team whose fans are obnoxious, self-centered "paragons of baseball history" vs. a team whose fans are annoying, self-righteous "protectors of baseball tradition." Please notify me when the offseason begins.

Let's see... we have a team whose fans are obnoxious, self-centered "paragons of baseball history" vs. a team whose fans are annoying, self-righteous "protectors of baseball tradition." Please notify me when the offseason begins.

Should be a great series; both of these teams are relentless. Aren't these the two teams who won the most games this year, also? Any champion is a worthy champion but it will sit better with me than it did, for example, when the Cards won in 2006 after finishing only 5 games over .500.

I'm picking Boston and I'm hoping they win, mostly as the lesser of two evils. I'm tired of the beards and the "grittiness" but my anti-Cardinals days began even before LaRussa got there; no need to stop now.